Thread: Questions about the retirement visa

I don't know a lot about the visa, but there is some info here:

http://www.expat.or.id/info/retirement.html

I thought the Indonesian embassy in the UK would have something about it, but I couldn't find anything.

I suspect it might be easier to come here on a tourist visa and then get an agent here to help get the retirement visa. It wouldn't hurt to call your local consulate/embassy and see what information they can provide.

Perhaps someone who has done this recently can provide some advice :?:

welcome rennytasker :) ,

Why don't you give the embassy in the UK a call, ask them to mail you the applicationform.
or if you live close to the embassy, swing by in person.
get all the things needed for the application and drop it of at the embassy...don't see why they wouldn't process it.

ofcourse spicy's suggestion works too (come here and do it from here) and is maybe (almost sure it is) alot easier.

Gilber maybe I am wrong, but I wonder if he needs to be first inside of Indonesia to apply for the Visa, get all the papers ready first from here and after go out of the country and finish the process out of Indonesia and enter the country with the retirement visa already?????????????
At least to apply for a Kitas is working that way I think!!! it is not possible to arrive to Indonesia already with the Kitas.
Have a look of all post as well, I think Johnny Cool has wrote about this Visa before and he has one or has been on the process to have one recently, I am quite sure you could write and pm him asking information about this.

Not wishing to be mean or particularly nasty but why is it that people who obviously have important and life changing plans and intentions before them, generally seem too fecking lazy to go and do a few minutes research into the archives here but expect the good denizens of this forum to repeat again and again the same old BS?

As a lesser rant, why is it that the good denizens of this forum seem to have so little to do that they answer the same old BS lagi, lagi, lagi (again, again, again)?

Ahhh Markit old fellow...it is called human nature :D I have been shot down in flames before for daring to say this but the other thing I can never understand is why one would accept as gospel (kitab, koran) that the information given is correct especially on legal matters.

However having added to your rant if you go to the emabassy websites it does not even mention retirement or how to apply for it. Try phoning them and you get ring ring for ever and they never reply to emails. At least the embassy in the UK does not.

What you actually have to do is to apply for a temporary residents visa of 1 year and that gets you into Indonesia after which you can apply for the retirement visa. It is such a problem and even more so outside Bali that we are thinking of Maria reverting back to Indonesian citizenship......but that is another story.

Not wishing to be mean or particularly nasty but why is it that people who obviously have important and life changing plans and intentions before them, generally seem too fecking lazy to go and do a few minutes research into the archives here but expect the good denizens of this forum to repeat again and again the same old BS?

I understand your point, but the person is just new to the forum. They took the effort to register and post a message, so I think the least we can do is be friendly and helpful with whatever they question they have about Bali.

Please remember we were all new here once. Yes, there is information in the archives, but that can still get out of date fairly quickly. Part of the question was about downloading forms from the Indonesian embassy website in the UK. I had a look also and they had various forms for different visas, but couldn't find any information at all.

As a lesser rant, why is it that the good denizens of this forum seem to have so little to do that they answer the same old BS lagi, lagi, lagi (again, again, again)?

I suppose those people you are referring to are just giving back from perhaps helpful information they received in the past. Without these kind of people posting, the forum would die off fairly quickly.

Like any community we need new members coming in all of the time and we need to hope that the people who do decide to come to Bali do keep visiting the forum and posting their experiences here.